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AT ST. THOMAS’ GRAVE.
NOTES ABOUT THE GREAT DOUBTER
AND HOW HE DIED.
The Apostle of India, the Cave Where
He Lived, and the Plain Where He
Preached—How the King’s Palace
Was Built For Eternity.
From the Chicano New*.
In British India, March 81, 1887.
The king would build, so a legend says.
The very finest of palaces.
He sent for St. Thomtts. a builder rare.
And bade him to build them a wonder fair.
"Build well. O builder good and so great.
And add to the glory of my estate.'
Do you know-w here the doubting apostle,
St. Thomas died, and was buried J He who
said: "Except I see in His hands the print
of the nails, and put my finger into the print,
of the nails, and thrust my hand into Hi*,
side, I will not believe. ”
Subsequently at a meeting with closed
doors, when Jesus stood suddenly an appa
rition among His mourning diaciples, He
said to Thomas: “Reach here your hand.
Thrust it into my side.” After Thomas had
satisfied himself Jesus said: “Because you
have seen me, you have believed. Blessed
are they that, have not seen and yet have
believed” —John, chapters xx. and xxi. In
the Bible record this apostle was therefore
given the title of Didymus, which is the
Greek of doubter, a skeptical man. At this
present day a Methodist hymn says:
Oh. where is doubting Thomas?
Safe in the promised laud
Gone up at the feet of Jesus.
Safe in the promised land,
By and by we will go and see Him,
Safe in the promised land.
There we will sing and shout together,
There we will sing and shout forever,
Safe in the promised land.
Many a time I have in my childhood helped
to ring out the cadences and repetitions of
that chorus, not forseeing that in Southern
India should I surely look down into the now
vacant gi*ave where that apostle lay buried
1,300 years. I did not dream that on a sul
trv tropic, morning I should walk over miles
of the ground that was part, of his mission
ary field, and should follow the road where
his followers walked bearing his body after
the martyrdom; that I should hear a chorus
of the Indian ocean surf roaring and foam
ing and breaking upon the shore while an
Indian convert to tnc religion of Christ and
the twelve apostles told me the tradition of
Bt. Thomas' grave.
Excursions within the torrid zone must be
made early in the morning or else when the
sun is again low in the afternoon. This lit
tle tour had been mentioned the day before,
but evidently nobody was remembering it.
This was to be my last day in Madras for
the present. Not being able to use the
speech of the country to bargain for a vehi
cle, the sun already on his upward round, an
urgent case, I started off with only a spread
umbrella as my companion. Not anticipat
ing the blistered toes which lasted for a
week—but what of that, when I learned so
much, and found It so interesting and en
gaging that I did not know of my toes’ con
dition until the next day —I crossed the Adi
gar river, and followed the pleasant road
which is the landward winding and south
erly end of a several miles drive and prom
enade, of which lam told that the world
has truly few or none other such. Solid
great public buildings within gardens of
trees and shrubbery make one side. On the
other rolls against the shore the celebrated
dangerous surf of Madras in three consecu
tive parallel silvered lines.
Madras isa city built in groups, with semi
rural acres between. In the quarter called
“St. Thome” a church is built over the ven
erated place where St. Thomas was turned
and where his body lay for 1,200 years. In
one of the ante-rooms'of the church the lift
ing of a trap-door discloses a hole which has
been empty ’SOO yeans. It has become 13 feet
deep by two causes—a change in the level
of the surrounding land during the 1,800
years since the apostle was there interred,
but more it has been deepened by pilgrims
who prized the very soil that was the bed
where St.| Thomas’ body rested for more
than a thousand years," and each pilgrim
carried away one handful of sand as a talis
man.
In a locked cupboard in the same ante
room is preserved the broken-off point of
the spear that was the instrument of his
martyrdom on Dec. 21, A. D. 68. The In
dian priest who told me most of the details
gave them as traditions only, adding that in
India tradition is peculiarly a method of
tramsmitting history. St. Thomas’ apos
tolic work is told in' a poem of fifty lines
translated and paraphrased from the Latin
of the mediaeval Christian fathers.
‘Build well, uor spare of my wealth to show
A prouder palace than mortals know.’
The king took leave of his kingdom thenr
And wandered far from the haunts of men.
St. Thomas the king s great treasure spent
In worthier way than bis master meant.
He clad the naked, the hungry fed,
The oil of gladness around him shed;
He Messed them all with the ample store
As never a king's wealth blessed before.
The king came back to his well-spent gold
But no new palace did he behold.
In terrible he swore and said
That the builder’s folly should cost his head.
St. Thomas and St. Bartholomew were the
apostles of the far East. They came together
to India, after the Saviour’s fast command:
“Go ye into all the world and preach the
gospel to every creature.” Of the (Minted
Hindu peninsula the west side is called “the
Malabar coast” and the east is called “the
Coromandel coast.” Bartholomew took the
Malabar side. It is rainy and mountain
ous. St. Thomas took the Madrasian plain.
It is dry and sunny. They itinerated a great
deal and founded many churches. St.
Thomas’ sermons are told of to this day as
being delivered on both the Malalar and
the Coromandel coasts ;for Bartholomew and
Thomas used to “exchange," I suppose like
modern preachers.
Two isolated mounts, three miles apart,
rise out of the great plain on whose sea edge
stands Madras. Each is called “St. Thomas'
mount," but as, by comparison, one is
big and the other is less, the one is generally
called at Madras “Bt. Thomas’ mount’’
and the other is called me
“Little mount.” They are properly termed
mount, and not monutain, because Doth are
so small as to be easily reconnoitered; like
some Mississippi river cliffs if they were
suddenly detached from their surroundings.
Southern Hindustan has many such. They
are supposed to be geological monuments:
made hy the wear und tear ot the storms of
ages, slowly disintegrating and washing
away the ridge or other earth formations
that once were of their top level.
In the “Tuttle mount” is the cave where
ThomasDidymus lived. There are indent
ure that were made by his knees in his fre
quent prayers, and by his hands in his also
frequent prostrations. The cave has a crev
ice through which he got out when the per
secutors came. Being then an old man who
could not run fast, he was directly overtaken
mid was fatally pierced with a spear.
“The Big mount” lias a cliff, with draw
ings on it that were made by Kt. Thomas.
Upon the large rook he scratches 1 the out-
Unoeof a large cross and the ligure of the
virgin mother and a dove, emblematic of
the Holy Hpirit. After ho was left for dead
with painful exertions he managed to reach
this favorite spot, where, at the foot of the
cams, lie died.
His friends caught up his body and by the
light of the stars and the moon, which is
wonderfully bright here, they lovingly lore
the lifeless likeness of their teacher six miles
to this place by the seashore, now in Madras
city, and buried it. This was then a wild
place and the little village and the whole
region here and all around as far out as the
mounts was called Maiiapurum (Mylapoo
ram).
Kt. Thomas here rested in peace for 1,300
years. There came a time when India was
overrun by oonquerors and dcsecrutors: and
Christiana of the still living church that was
founded by St. Thomas, fearful of what
might happen, dug up his treasure bones and
il, ik,Kited them for security in a vault long
unknown.
•” * o*judi ed years went by. Then a
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Portuguese deputation of missionaries from
the Malabar side, by the light Jof modern
Christianity, searched the wnole Coroman
del coast, and 865 years ago they found the
apostle’s complete relic, safely'interred at
the greater mount, which is ‘called by his
name.
This skeleton was lying side by side with
that of a king w hom he had converted. Tile
deputation, overjoyed, took tile precious
dust to Goa, which is an interesting town
on the southwest coast of this peninsula.
There in the sanctuary, which is called the
Church of St. Thomas, the crumbling lames
lie to this day.
The poem does not mention the name or
country of the King for whom Wt. Thomas
built the heavenly Jialace, but legendary his
tory happily tells it.
A yellow anil ant-eaten parchment almost
a thousand years old, and copied; from the
original one that was 500 years older, was
found and published by Wolfgang Lazius
855 years ago. lam particular about these
dates, and give them under the authority of
the present official statistician of Rritiish In
dia, W. W. Hunter. And everylaaiy all
over Europe or America that knows any
thing about India knows of W. W. Hunter,
C. W. I. C. L E., and LL. D.
My priestly informant gave me most, of
the main events in outline, hut ho did not
mention many dates. He did not tell me
of the other Wt. Thomas’ church in Goa
which has the lxxiy, hut I have learned that
since from Dr. Huiiter. The manuscript was
written by a chronicler named Alohas, who,
when he was young, was a disciple of Wt.
Thomas. Abrtlns, when he wrote the his
tory, was living in Babylon—the celebrated
Babylon of ancient history. He was a
Christian minister, and had charge of all the
churches in that part of Asia, tlis literary
work—ten volumes—was done in one of the
oriental tongues. But it was translated in
to Latin by the well-known Julius Afri
canus. In the Latin, which is the only lan
guage any of us would l>e likely to under
stand, it is in part entitled "Andiae Baby
lonia',” “libri aeceini; Julio Africano, inter
prete.”
Julius Africanus’ translation was fortu
nately found just ten years after the pre
cious dust of the martyred apostle was dis
covered on the Coromandel coast ; where,
though lying side by side with Ids royal
friend, every circumstance existed for identi
fication; the martyred aaint being greater
than the King.
This ancient manuscript tells us how Wt.
Thomas come to go to India and to naan his
old age ill the quiet retirement of Madras.
It was only a sudden attack of persecution
that terminated bis life. He lived there very
pleasantly. This is the story of the manu
script :
The fame of Jesus had reached the far
East, which is a laud of magic, even to this
day. “Black magic” and “white magic” I
am often hearing of, and 1 am even told in
wbat provinces the "black magicians” are
and on what mountain heights the “white
magicians'’ stay. Jesus was here supposed
to be a great magician; one of those magi
who could do or supply anything.
King Gondaphorus sent to Jesus by a mes
senger named Abban. Alihan arrived just
before the Anal ascension. Gondaphorus sent
for a skillful architect, to build him a palace.
He thought that, he would thereby have the
finest palace in India, this part of Asia lieing
then, and up to a very late date, divided in
to several kingdoms, having rich kings who
lived very grandly. Jesus furnished hint
with Thomas Didymus as an expert in archi
tecture. The apostle converted Gonda
phorus, for the story goes that, when—
St. Thoma* in dungeon dark was • n’tA
Till lie- time of bis punishment dire flk.
Then It chanced, or the good Hod i
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THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MAY 8, 1887-TWELVE PAGES.
PERSPECTIVE VIEW.
DESCRIPTION OF DESIGN.
Size of Structure— Front, 21 feet, C inches, extreme width, 25 feet. Side, 24
feet, 9 inches.
, Size of Rooms—See ffoor plans.
; Height of Stories— Cellar, 6 feet 6 inches; First Story, sfeet.fi inches; Second
Story, 8 feet fi inches.
Materials— Foundation, stone; First Story, clapboards; Second Story, shingles;
Roof, shingles.
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Cost— sl,soo to $l,BOO, complete.
Special Features— A compact arrangement of rooms.
Antplo piazza.
All the rooms are of good size.
The parlor and dining-room connected by a large opening, where a curtain should
hang.
Fire-place in parlor and dining-room, with pretty wood mantels of appropriate
design.
Three good rooms in the second story.
Cellar under the hall and dining-room.
An excellent design for a seaside, lakeside or mountain cottage; the arrangement of
rooms and the large window and door openings insure a good circulation of air.
When four days dead, as the legend reads,
He arose to humanity’s life and needs;
From slrep of the dust he strangely woke.
And thus to his brother, the king, he spoke:
“I have been to paradise, oh, my king!
And have heard the heavenly angels sing,
And there I saw, by the gates of gold,
A palace finer than tongue has told;
Its walls and towers are lifted high
In beautiful grace to the bending sky!
‘lts glories there In that radiant place
Shone forth like a smile from the dear Ixtrd’s
face;
An angel said it was builded there
By the good St. Thomas, with love and care,
For our fellow-men, and that it should lie
Thy palace of peace through eternity.”
The king this vision pondered well.
Till he took St. Thomas from dungeon cell
And said: “Oh, Builder! he most is wise,
"Who huildeth ever for paradise.”
After this, St. Thomas became very popu
lar. All the kings believed in him and re
cognized him as a true saint: and he jour
neyed protected by the scepter and under
the royal white umbrella of King Meo Ileus,
with a hand of music and i. procession, to
the Madras country, where he said good-by
to all pmud pomp, found a comfortable cave
in which he long lived quietly and plainly,
and Anally was slain.
The dark Indian patre, a man of keen face
and tiolished manners clothed in the eccle
siastical gown of the Roman church, at the
close of the narration agnin candidly assured
me that it was wholly traditional; that in
the lapse of ages and the mutations of gov
ernment and circumstances no point of the
story could be proved, and I venture to say
that Doubting Thomas himself would be the
last to believe it.
It belongs only to the critical analyzer of*
time-eaten manuscripts and eomplleatcd le
gends to interfere with the regular contin
uity of a story and the consistency of de
tails.
Rut the fact is that, modern Christian mis
sionaries, the earliest being the Portuguese,
in A. 1). 1600, found the knowledge anil wor
ship of Christ no new thing in India; and
that up to the last, ten years the remnants of
the ancient “Syrian church” had more na
tive adherents than all the Protestant sects
in Hindustan put together.
At the beginning of the Christian era
Buddhistic philosophy, then supreme in
Southern India, did not oppose the introduc
tion of a religion whose characteristics were
humanity and self-sacrifice; while north of
the Himalayas Christianity and Buddhism
a thousand years were side by side and inter
laced. From the flfth to the fifteenth cen
tury they formed the two intelligent relig
ions of Central Asia.
Ask Dr. Hunter. Ho will tell you that the
whole subject of early Christanity, from
Cyprus to China, has been treated with ex
haustive learning in Col. Yule’s “Kathay and
the Way Thither,” published by the Hak
luyt society in 1866.
This makes plain why in Toklo. Japan, the
temple worship, and why near Chinese Can
ton :i motinsterial altar’s embellishment re
minded inn of the Roman Catholic churches
in the United North American Whites.
Mesojxitnmin and Syria, in early Chris
tian times, recruited with missionaries the
sometimes hard-pushed, priestless, ami desn
late Indian church. A mixed worship,
Christian, Kumron, ami Hindu, has boon
offered at Wt. Thomas’ mount and Little
mount, Ixit.li being ancient “high places. ’’
Only for certain lowly and devoted ones
those isolated hill-shrines on the Mmlrusinn
plain, retaining the Christian name, have
supported a faith in the apostle of ludiu,
and Christum pilgrims Ixdieve that the mag
uiAceut wuvok of the Indian ocoan make a
mighty requiem by his grave.
Anna R * I'ann
CURIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Strange and Taking- Advertisements
Which Were Printed in 1767.
Front Hie Columbus Journal.
In a number of the London Magazine of
17(17 v\as this curious announcement, ad
dressed to all the foreigners and others:
“This is to give notice, that the English
vulgar tongue is taught at Billingsgate by a
company of qualiiied fishwomen, upon very
reasonable terms.”
An equally curious notice is said to lie
given by a minister in Salem county, N. J.,
namely, that he will perform the marriage
ceremony on the most accommodating
terms. “Those who are not blessed with cash
can pay the fee in cord wood, bacon or corn.' ’
A Liverpool furrier informs “those la ties
who wish to have a really genuine article
that he will lie happy to make them muffs,
boas, etc.,‘of llieir own skins.’” This is
matched by the prophet, or of a bone mill,
who, announces that “Parties sending their
own bones to be ground will find their
orders attended to with punctuality and dis -
patch.”
There are many curious signs and business
announcements to be found in London, of
which a tew are: “Sick dogs medically at
tended by the week or month. Birds to
board. Ladies’ and gentlemen's feet and
hands professionally treated by the job or
season. Round shouldered persons made
straight. Babies or children hired or ex
<’hanged. False noses ns good as new, and
warranted to tit. Black eyes painted very
neatly.”
In the extreme West, wo hear of a shanty
which bears the sign: “Here’s where you
get a meal like your mother used to give
you.”
A swimming school in Frankfort-on-the-
Main announces in English: “Swimming
instructions given by a teacher of both
sexes.” An allusion to swimming reminds us
that at Dieppe, that famous bathing place
there are police established whose duties it
is to rescue persons from danger. This
notice is sold to have lx* si recently issued hi
them: “The bathing police are requested,
when a lady is in danger of drowning, to
seize her by the dross and not by the hair,
which oftentimes remains in their grasp."
An Irish provincial pai>cr insulted the
following notice:
“Whereas. Patrick O’Conner lately left
his lodgings; this is to give notice that if he
does not return immediately ondixty for the
same, he will Is* udvertisod."
A countryman of the author of thonliove,
not to lie outdone in the same line, an
nounced in an Irish journal that among other
portraits, he hud a representation of “Death
as large as life," but one of the latest of Irish
bulls is the following from an editorial in
one of the leading papers of the Nationalist
party, the other day:
“So long as Ireland was silent under her
wrongs. England was deaf to her cries.”
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SECOND FLOOR.
Solomon’s Judgment in Chinese.
From the London Academy.
Two women came before a mandarin in
China, each of them protesting that she was
the mother of a little child they had brought
with them. They were so eager and so pos
itive that the mandarin was sorely puzzltd.
lie retired to consult with his wife, who w. s
a wise and clever woman, whose opinion
was held in great repute in the neighbor
hood. - -
She requests! five minutes in which to de
li if rate. At the end of that time she spoke:
•Let the servants catch me a large fish m
the river, and let it be brought me here
alive.”
This was done.
“Bring me now the infant,” she said, “but
leave the women in the outer chamber.”
This was done, too. Then the mandarin's
wife caused the baby to be undressed and
its clothes put on the fish.
“Carry the creature outside now, and
throw it. into the -river in tho sight of the
two women.”
The servant olieyed her orders, flinging
the fish into the water, where it rolled about
an 1 struggled, disgusted, no doubt, by the
wrapping in which it was swaddled.
Without a moment’s pause one of the
mothers throw herself into the river with a
shriek. She must save her drowning child.
“Without doubt, she is the true mother,"
she declared; and tho mandarin’s wife com
manded that she should be rescued, and the
child given to her.
“Without a doubt, sho is the true mother,"
she declared. And the mandarin nodded
his head, and thought his wife the wisest
woman in tho Flowery Kingdom. Mean
time the false mother crept away. She was
found out in her imposture, and the man
darin's wife forgot all about her in the oc
cupation of donning the little baby in the
best silk she could find in her wardrobe.
Happy Workmen.
The operatives of the Griffin Mills who
drew a tenth |iurt of the $50,000 prize in the
last drawing of The Louisiana State Lottery
on yesterday received a check for the same.
The fortunate individuals uro William C.
Hammock, C, L. Hammock, George Hearn,
F. M. Ballou and Pnrlai llowdcn, each of
whom received $l,OOO. Each put in one
dollar anil purchased five tickets, one of them
being the lucky number, 2,80D, and conse
quently they are happy. They are all hard
working, deserving men, and we coiigratu
late them on their good fortune. This is
tlie largest prize that has ever been drawn
in the city, although numerous smaller
amounts have been received. This may
tend to convince the skeptical that The
Louisiana State Lottery always acta in good
faitli and actually bestows the prizes where
drawn. All of the above parties are mar
ried men except C. L. Hammock, and wo
understand tlmt he is now contemplating
taking a chance in the matrimonal lottery.
Mr. \V. C. Hummock, when asked how he
really felt when he found that he had actu
ally drawn and received the money, prompt
ly said: “1 felt pretty fair, as you may im
agine.” Warming up, he continued; “1 felt
like I did when I was paid off in leaving the
Confederate service, and received inv pay,
unlike most, in good money. Yes, I am a
Confederate veteran and fought under Gen.
Beauregard, and now 1 have again earned
my reward under him. Gen. Beauregard is
ii true man uiul a brave soldier, and I am
glad that the money comes through’ him.”—
Griffin (Oil.) New*, April 21.
Hi sbasii I was m great luck to-day. I found
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Wife 1 wish you would give It to me, John.
Baby needs u new tuilr of show.
Husband Ufve ft to you; Why 1 spent it. and
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gotten up In imitation of our SPECIFIC. A tew grains of Sugar of Lead dropped into a glass of
these imitations wall cause the poisonous drugs to fall to the bottom and show the danger of using
them. SWIFT'S SPECIFIC is entirely vegetable, and is the best tonic for delicate ladies and chil
dren and old people in the world. _
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga.
STOVES.
Showing the superiority of its ~auction over all its competitors. The heat entirely
surrounds the oven, causing articles to cook evenly in every part at the same time, a feature
possessed only by the CHARTER OAK. Cali and examine the apparatus.
Clarice &o Daniels,
GkTTALEiDS ARMORY, - SAVANNAH, G-Al.
CORSETS.
fflafUES.
P*p^J|ROES
9 Million worn daring the past six ,cars.
This marvelous suocess Is due—
-Ist.—To the superiority of Corallne over all
other materials, as a stiffener for Corsets.
id,—-To the superior quality, shape and work
manship of our Corsets, coni blued with their
low prices. *
Avoid cheap imitations madenf variona kinds
of cord. Nono are genuine unless *p
“DR. WARN r.O’S CQRALINE”
Is printed on t pm f steal ervsr.
k * i FRIEND in need is a friend indeed.'' If
J\ you have a friend send him or her the
SAVANNAH WEEKLY NEWS; it only costs
81 for a year
I.IQUIl) GOLD.
rUWB OOU>. ' '
FOR SALE BY ALL LEADING MERCHANTS.
WARNER BROTHERS,
339 Broadway, New York Cl; - /,
RUBY^UDJN_G
The exact color of English Sterling Gold.
PRICE Me.
Used by over 1.300 Manufacturer* and Gilders.
These splendid products have l*n bcforeine
pimlic Mince 1870, and they liuve Invariably own
awarded the bigbost prize wherever exnjbwefl.
They w ere used to decorate the splendid homes
of \\ H. Vanderbilt, Judge Hilton, Oen.
liraut. and many other wealthy and aisu •
fc'uishell New Yorkers. They are ready for in
Htnnl use and may bo used by tlio most mexpi
rimieed amateur. . .
FOR I. v DIES. Either of the above iiitnvama
till! for i Midi up Frames, Furnitiire,(ornic-e
Bankets, Fmiß, Photos, Silk Mottoes. Ihs-orati™
Fainting, etc. Any one can use them, ask ■
Williams’ Hold or Kilby's Gilding, and reruse an
substitutes. .
Sold bv nit Art Dealers and Druggist*-
New York Chemical MfgCo.. E h ®V' 1 1
j Kit her will he sent by mall for flej*xtra^^
PLUMBER.
l. a. McCarthy,
Successor to Chas. E. Wakefield,
PLUMBER, GAS anil STEAM FITTER,
IS Barnard street, SAVANNAH. GA- ,
Telephone 3711 J